Brandon Bennett

{{Short description|American football player (born 1973)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{BLP sources|date=September 2022}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Brandon Bennett

| number = 36

| position = Running back

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|2|3}}

| birth_place = Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 11

| weight_lb = 220

| high_school = Riverside
(Greer, South Carolina)

| college = South Carolina

| undraftedyear = 1995

| pastteams =

• Cleveland Browns (1995)*
• Chicago Bears ({{NFL Year|1995|1996}})
• Miami Dolphins (1996)
• Cincinnati Bengals ({{NFL Year|1998|2003}})
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2004)*
• Carolina Panthers ({{NFL Year|2004}})

| highlights =

• Second-team All-SEC (1993)

| statlabel1 = Rushing yards

| statvalue1 = 1,144

| statlabel2 = Average

| statvalue2 = 3.7

| statlabel3 = Touchdowns

| statvalue3 = 6

| pfr = BennBr00

}}

Brandon Bennett (born February 3, 1973) is an American former professional football running back who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cincinnati Bengals and the Carolina Panthers.{{cite news |last1=O'Hare |first1=Tom |title=Woeful bengals OK for Bennett |work=The Item |location=Sumter, South Carolina|date=December 7, 2002|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1980&dat=20021207&id=gIEiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tq0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4884,1639726}}{{cite news |title=Daily Sports Capsule |url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/sports/2004/10/27/daily-sports-capsule/50299894007/ |access-date=29 September 2022 |work=The Standard-Times |date=27 October 2004|quote=The Carolina Panthers signed running back Brandon Bennett to replace DeShaun Foster, who was placed on injured reserve.}} He played college football at the University of South Carolina. In high school, Bennett was on the track team as well as the basketball team.

In January 2017, he became the head football coach at St. Joseph's Catholic School in Greenville.{{cite web |title=Brandon Bennett New Head Football Coach |url=http://www.sjcatholicschool.org/2017/01/26/brandon-bennett-new-head-football-coach/ |website=St. Joseph's Catholic School |access-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202094616/http://www.sjcatholicschool.org/2017/01/26/brandon-bennett-new-head-football-coach/ |archive-date=2 February 2017 |date=26 January 2017 |url-status=dead}} He was previously employed as dean of students at Carolina High School and Academy in Greenville, South Carolina, and then served as the director of intramural sports at Southside Christian School in Simpsonville, South Carolina.